I was given my first camera--a Kodak Brownie--on my Bar Mitzvah, and I have carried a camera almost continually since then. I used my camera to document the anti-Vietnam War, the anti-nuclear movements, and the New York City labor movement from the 1960s to the present, and I hope the new "Occupy" movements will grow and keep me busy in the future. As a member of the “Minority Photographers” group in the 1970s, I participated in a number of exhibits throughout New York City, including New York's "Bus Show" in 1975, as well as a one-person show, “Mindscapes and Other Memorabilia”, at The Darkroom Gallery.  Two of my photos were published in the magazine Women: a Journal of Liberation, and more recently, one of my photos, "Moondog", was published in a literary magazine, The Oxford American.  After a hiatus of twenty years in which I helped raise a family; published some seminal, but very obscure, research about ceramic tiles and stamps, two of my photos were selected for a group show at the Self Made NY gallery in Brooklyn; in 2012 one of my photo collages was the cover art work for the internet art and poetry magazine Inertia; in 2014 and 2016 I exhibited at the Lakefront Gallery in Hamilton, NJ; and in 2016 in the first Park Slope/ArtSlope Arts Festival; as well as in the "Americana" exhibit at the Pennsylvania Center for Photography in Doylestown in March 2017. I am currently working on two books: one about architectural ornamentation in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, and I am co-authoring a monograph with my wife about stained and dalle de verre glass artist Robert Pinart. My architectural photos can be seen in my blog, "Architectural tiles, glass and ornamentation in New York". In 2019 my sister, Lynn Padwee, organized a photo exhibit in the Monroe Township (NJ) Public Library, "One Family--Three Photographers: Aaron, Lynn and Michael Padwee", dedicated to my wife, Susan, who died in 2019, and our son, Aaron, who was killed in 2018.

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